Windows 7 sees the virtual memory consumed by the software in the task manager

In Windows XP, users can use the Task Manager to view system processes, or the amount of memory occupied by running software. But what you see here is just physical memory. If you want to see the virtual memory occupied by a certain software or system component, you have to use other methods. If you are a Windwos 7 user, you can view it directly in the Task Manager.

In this article, you will learn the following:

How to directly view the system resources occupied by a software in Windows 7. This article looks at Windows 7, the default situation can not be directly viewed, how can we directly view it? Knowledge point Windows 7 is more advanced in terms of system setup than XP.

In Windows 7, press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to bring up the task manager, switch to the “Process” tab, click “View→Select Column” (eg figure 1).

Figure 1 Select Column

In the "Select Process Page Column" window that opens, find the red circle position in Figure 2, and set the "Memory - Submission Size" check Select:

Figure 2 Check the memory - commit size

After the modification is successful, call the task manager again, the "submit size" column is what Windows 7 refers to Virtual memory, as shown in Figure 3:

Figure 3 Submit size is virtual memory

In Figure 3, through the Windows 7 task manager, we can clearly see that Thunder 5 During the download process (the download speed was about 20KB/sec at the time), the physical memory was about 34MB, and the virtual memory was 60MB. In the idle state, the process related to the Mini Thunder "service", the physical memory is close to 13MB, and the virtual memory is about 16MB.

Comment:

Some of the new features of Windows 7, many of them are in the Windows XP system, we hope to have, but there is no. However, the user's understanding of Windows 7 has just begun, and you need to improve from the bit by bit, to experience its progress.